If you’re looking to shake up your iOS email experience, consider Skimbox, another new, free app that separates important messages from the other stuff; Birdseye Mail, which gives email the Flipboard treatment; or Mailbox, a popular app owned by Dropbox.

Triage email apps have forever changed our inboxes. Where we used to have dozens of messages we could barely keep track of, we now have a system of sorting unique to our needs. Apps like Mailbox and Dispatch do a fantastic job of keeping our messages moving, but there's still a danger that we could forget an important email that's been tucked out of view.

Skimbox addresses such concerns with a smarter approach to email filtering.

iOS: You've got a lot of options for different email clients on your iPhone, but Skimbox hopes to set itself apart by offering a different take on a Gmail-style priority inbox. iOS: You've got a lot of options for different email clients on your iPhone, but Skimbox hopes to set itself apart by offering a different take on a Gmail-style priority inbox.

What if statistical models about which email is important to you, based not only on things like volume of correspondence, but also observed behavior, could be applied to separate your email wheat from the chaff?

A new application called Skimbox is attempting to take on the heady challenge of fighting email overload in a way that makes sense for both consumers and the enterprise. The app, launching first on iOS, uses the concepts popularized by Mailbox – with its various swipes and gestures – as a way to move through email messages. But Skimbox’s core idea does not involve email triage – it’s about intelligently surfacing the most relevant email messages you need to see first, similar to Gmail’s “Priority Inbox” feature adopted by heavy email users.

Skimbox is an e-mail app for the iPhone that automatically sorts incoming messages into two tabs: Mainbox, for those you need to act on, and Skimbox, for those you can skim through or ignore. It uses your past interactions with the sender and keyword cues when selecting.

Don't expect a 64-bit version anytime soon of Skimbox, an e-mail app due to ship this fall. "Ideally we'd wait until the old 32-bit only phones weren't supported or had a very small user base, so we wouldn't have to develop both 32-bit and 64-bit versions," said Brian Barnes, Skimbox's director of marketing.

Skimbox is an email app for the iPhone that automatically sorts your incoming messages into two tabs: those you need to act on (“Mainbox”) and those you can just skim through, or ignore altogether (“Skimbox”). It uses your social graph, keyword cues, and past interactions with a sender to classify the messages, and learns to improve over time.

I had a chance to speak with David Will, CEO, Nick Martin, software engineer, and Claire Willet, market development manager of Riparian Data, the developers behind Gander, an enterprise email management platform that uses Big Data Analytics. Riparian Data’s development efforts are an intriguing mix of Big Data analytics and email productivity wrapped up in the cloud.

Email is ripe for revolution...Gander allows users to drag and drop mail into various sections (such as Read, Skim, Respond), and Boomerang can schedule emails to be sent at a later time and resurfaces emails that don’t get a reply.

A good number of apps like Mailbox, Mailstrom, and Gander, just to name a few, are tackling email management by improving the ways that we sort or deal with a huge email influx or the inability to take action on the emails that arrive.

Gander uses a responsive design to create a virtual inbox that lets you drag and drop emails into “read” “skim” and “respond” sections. It works with Exchange or Gmail, and its tagline is that it will “always put meeting requests ahead of cat videos.”